I am Rachel Choppin a sophomore and McDaniel College. I am studying Cinema. I enjoy watching movies, music, watching vampire diaries, new girl, and i used to play lacrosse. I created this blog to post reflections for my SIS: Once Upon a Time: Folk Tales. Enjoy!

Sunday, April 21, 2013

Native American Folk Tales

Personally I have always had a real appreciation and love
for Native American culture. That’s why this week when we were leaning and
reading folktales from Native American culture I was so happy and extremely
interested. The tales of Native Americans are like many fold tales because
their point or moral is to give meaning to events or moments that happen in everyone’s
lives. Also like many folk tales their tales are passed down from generation to
generation as part of their traditions, ancestors, and religion. These tales are
distinctly different from stories of English origin in some ways. The tales
that we red from How men and women got
together to Deer Hunter and White
Corn Maiden all are very wondrous and filled with religious and magical
aspects that make them unique. In English origin fold tales there is aspects of
religion and magic but in a very different way than the Native American ones.
In these tales the gods that they worship are actually called spirits and they
are more human and they come down to earth to help their people. In many English
origin tales there are religious symbols like a bird but their god never comes
down and actually helps people and works with them.